Pda Logs

[+globalman]

I use a Palm Pilot Tungsten E-3 in conjuction with Cachemate and GSAk. With pocket queries, only five logs are transrered to palm pilot. Is there a method or another progam which would allow more than five logs to be transferred?

[+Miragee]

If you continue to update your GSAK database with each PQ, which is the default setting, more logs will accrue. I have many, many logs for popular caches that have been in my database for more than a year now.

 

When you create the .pdb file, there is a setting for how many logs are included. I have mine set to "no limit."

[+Kacky]

I use Mobipocket e-book on my Palm Tungsten. I really like it. It brings in all the logs.

Edited June 14, 2006 by Kacky

[+Marky]

I know this isn't a good solution for your problem, but I was surprised it even worked. If you go to a cache page and then view all logs, and then click on the GPX link, you'll get a GPX file with all the logs for that cache contained in it. If I were a betting man, I would have bet that wouldn't have worked.

 

--Marky

[+blindleader]

If I were a betting man, I would have bet that wouldn't have worked.

 

--Marky

You would win that bet. You must have tried it on a cache with not very many logs. Try it on one that has, say sixty logs and see how many download. It doesn't limit the logs to five, but maybe it limits file size, I don't know - good question for the geocaching.com forum.

 

edit: I just checked the geocaching.com forum and suprisingly, found the answer to the number of logs downloaded right away in this thread. It's twenty.

 

To get back to the OP question. The way to get all the logs for a cache is to run a periodic PQ (once a week is normally enough) for the area you are interested in and keep updating the GSAK database with the PQs. All logs that come down in the PQ will be added to the database if they aren't already there. Obviously this will not get you all the logs for caches already in existence, but in a year, you'll have a year's worth of logs for everything in your area of interest, plus all the logs for every cache placed since you started keeping the database. I have logs for all six thousand or so caches within a hundred miles of me going back two years.

 

One peculiarity of this process is that you always have the original log. If someone edits a log that shows up in a PQ, but it is already in your database, it won't be updated. It only adds logs that arean't already in the database.

Edited June 15, 2006 by blindleader

[+ClydeE]

One peculiarity of this process is that you always have the original log. If someone edits a log that shows up in a PQ, but it is already in your database, it won't be updated. It only adds logs that arean't already in the database.

 

No quite always. If the update is in the GPX you download then the old log will be updated with the new details.

 

It is only when the log drops off the radar for the cache (more than 5 logs for a PQ or more than 20 for an individual PQ) will this occur.